If you’re a regular reader of this blog, then you know that I hate Paypal. I think it’s the one of the most poorly run businesses on the planet, because they give no protection to the seller from credit card charge backs. A buyer could initiate a charge back on their credit card, [...]

I’m not a big fan of playing the lottery. I watch too many people come into convenience stores that should probably be saving the $10 to $20 they spend every 3 days on the lottery. My in-laws always give us about $25 worth of scratch-off lottery tickets which result in about $5 to [...]

Recently, I started playing around with the virtual stock application at The Updown.com. I’ve never been a single stock buyer, so I rarely keep up with what individual stocks are doing in the market. So, I thought this would be a great way for me to start researching individual companies and test out [...]

If you’re in your 40’s, 50’s, or 60’s, you’ll probably see the full social security benefits promised to you when you paid into the system throughout your working career. This article from CNN Money via Yahoo Finance, talks about the report that was released this week that Social Security funds will be tapped out [...]

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I was reading this article by Jeffrey Strain from TheStreet.com and he gives five ways to help other people with financial issues from your own personal experiences with managing your money. One of the things he listed was starting a personal finance blog. This is what I did two years ago, and my [...]

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After a lot of speculation. the IRS has finally sent out an official notice that cleared up a couple of questions people were having about the economic stimulus refund checks. I was right [...]

Many personal finance bloggers have written great articles about the cost of owning a pet and ways to save money when owning a pet. I didn’t realize how much it really does cost to own a medium-sized dog. For one thing, if you don’t have children, that pet becomes like your child, so [...]

Consumerism Commentary reported on a financial literacy education program that would allocate $250 million dollars a year toward personal finance education in the K through 12 public school system and public colleges. The bill would provide grants to schools that want to implement the education program, but it might require that the school make [...]

I’ve written in the past about using gift cards that you receive as soon as possible. Some companies put an expiration date on the gift card and some companies reduce the value of the gift card as each given increment of time passes such as three months, six months, or a year without [...]